Originally Posted by Baja5.0

Gotcha gotcha. That makes sense. I never use the built in nav so doesn’t matter to me. And the wifi I could care less about. I just want the 12” screen and use a CarPlay box to hotspot my phone to and use it for YouTube and stuff. I’m gonna buy the whole dash and screen. Plus harnesses

Originally Posted by barrytone

Unless you really want the larger screen and newer dash, you could get by with just upgrading the APIM to a Sync 4 unit on the 8 inch screen in that case.

Originally Posted by artsr2002

The Alpine Halo units have nice big landscape oriented screen but they won't be flush to the dash though. Alpine sounds very good and with iDatalink interface would work great with your truck. They also offer wireless Car Play.

Originally Posted by Baja5.0

alpine makes solid units. But I want this to look like it came from the factory like this. Just a clean simple OEM look. I just love the way that 12” screen looks with the interior. It’s so badass

Originally Posted by artsr2002

Agreed. It is bad ***. A coworker just got a 22 Lariat with that 12 inch screen. It's awesome.

Originally Posted by barrytone

...so I went back to Sync 3 and purchased a wireless Carplay dongle off of Amazon. I was also not a fan of never getting software updates.

Originally Posted by Lead Foot Gray

Can you please post a link to the wireless dongle that you bought? I would feel better picking one up that worked for someone else with Sync 3.

Originally Posted by barrytone

Yep, here's the Amazon link: https://a.co/d/cDS31FG